Printing device.



mlsamao. IPATENTED DEC. 4, 1906.

E. J. BRANDT.

PRINTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAB.26.1904.

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PATENTED DEG. 4,1906.

5.3. BRANDT; PRINTING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAB.26.1904.

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' UNITED sragps PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. BRANDT, or WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN, AssIeiIoR TO BRANDT CASHIER coMPANY, or cIIIoAeo, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLI- NOIS.

PRINTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters .Eatent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906.

Tea/ll whom/ it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BRANDT, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Watertown, in the county of Jefferson and- My invention relates especially to machines or devices for imprinting figures or other characters upon paper slips or.like articles;

and it consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, as will be fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view of a device embodying my present invention, taken on the plane indicated by the line 1 1 of Fi 2. Fig.

2 is a vertical transverse sectiona view of said device, taken on the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, but showing the type-. drum and one of the type-wheels in elevation.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the guide-racks.

Referring by. numerals to the said drawings, 1 designates the'base of thefmachine, 2 the casing, and 3 a shaft journaled in said casing. Loose on said shaft are a number of type-wheels, as 4 5, and one wide wheel or drum 6. The said type-wheels carry on their peripheries the cipher and nine digits in regular order, and the type-drum 6 in the illustration given carries the same characters, but arranged in aspiral or oblique line, with the first character at one edge of said drum and the last character at the opposite edge. If desired, said type wheels and drum .or some of them may carry letters or any other characters desired in any given instance in place tion of a stop-roller 12 at oneend of a spring 13, whose other end-is secured to the upper adjacent groove 11.

" part of the casing 2 and those grooves 11 cor responding in number and location to the printing characters on the wheels and drum.

14 indicates a peep-hole in the casing-top,

and the. upper surface of each guide-rack 8 is numbered or lettered to correspond to the adjacent printing characters, and so when the said guide-rackis pushed under the peep-hole 14 untilthe desired character is seen this indicates that the'printing-type corresponding to said character is on the printing-line, and the guide-rack is held in this position by'the engagement ofthe stop-roller 12 within the The casing 2 is slotted, as shown at 15 and 16., to permit the guide, rack to have free movement in either direc tion by pressure applied to its finger-sta1l17.

The paper sli or like article to be imprinted is slipped under the type wheels and drum in a paper-support 18-, having aflaring mouth l9supported by said casing,and this support, which is preferably a fiat tube, is centrally slotted in both its upper and its lower wall on the rinting-line, and each end of the support. is a so cut away for the reception of an ink-ribbon 20, which passes through the support just above the line of the pa er therein from a friction-drum 21 at one en of the device to a winding-drum 22 near the' other end, this last drum having a ratchet wheel 23,'fast on one end of drum 22, and two dogs 24 25, the dog 25 being ivotally attached to a link 26, loose on the shaft 27 of the winding-drum 22, and said link 26 being ivotally connected to one end of a second ink 28, whose other end is similarly, connected to one of the central depressed parts 291 of the printing-lever. This lever is fulcrumed on the transverse rod 31 and hastwo of these central depressed portions 29, each ending in a forwardly-projecting portion 32, united by the printing-hammer 33, while back of the line of the winding-reel 22 the two depressed portions 29 are united by a cross-piece 34,-

from which point the shank or handle 30 of the lever extends up and out through a slot in the rearwall of the casing 2. handle 30 is normally kept in an elevated position, with the hammer 33 away from the paper-support 18, by a retracting-spring 36, secured to said lever-handle and tothe casing The operation of my device will be readily understood from the foregoing description of its construction, taken in connection with the The said hole 14)"and lock'them thereby the stop-f roller, and then the paperslip or other article .to be imprinted (indicated by the dotted lines 37) is slipped through the mouth 19 and intothe paper-support '18, and then the han- 1 which'brin s the hammer end-33 upthrough dle 30 of thelprinting-lever is depressed,

the slot'in t 1e lower wall of the paper-support 18, thus impacting the paper-.37 and 111kribbon 20 against the printing character on thety ewheels anddrurn, as-sa id characters are al set in the printing-line, after which the hammer 33: is drawn away from the paper-- support again by the spring 36, and the guide;

racksS may beag'ain manipulated-to 'set the tyge for thenext printing-llne.

y reason of the'pecu iararrangement of the printing characters on the type-drum 6 'no two'are 1n annular linewith each-other,

hence in printing each figure or cha-racvterprinted by said drum 6 will be at a differ- Ient distance-from the character'sprintediby ithe type-Wheels, and this is a matterof great importance in the used my machine when it isrlesired to'have several transverse printing:

lines ap war on the slips one under t e other, but withthelast figure or character in each transverse line out of Vertical line' with the last figures or characters of the other trans-' verse line's.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent; is-

1. In a printing device, the combination with asuitable easing of a revoluble type-,

and wheels, and

drum, and series of revoluble typewheels.,'

the, latter having printing characters arranged in annular lines on their peripheries and the said type-drum having printing characters s ira-lly arranged on its periphery,- out of annu ar ,llne with each other, and said typedrum-and type-wheels loosely mounted on a transverse shaft; pinions fast on said drumand wheels, and loosely surrounding said shaft; guide-racks in engagement With'said pimons; detents in engagement with said racks; inking devices acent to said drum 4 and wheels; a paper-support; and an, im:

pacting device for forcing thepaper'carried by said support, and the inked printing characters,'t0g'ether at the proper times.- a 2. In a printing de'vice,the' combination I with asuitable casing of' a revoluble typedrum, and series of revoluble type wheels', the latter having printing characters ar rangedin annular lines-on their peripheries and the said type-drum having printing ch'ar acter'ssirally arranged on its periphery, out

ofaanm'i ar-line with each other, and said typedrum and type-wheels loosely mounted on a transverse shaft; pinions fast on-said drum pacting device for forcing the paper carried y said'support, and the inked printing characters,ztoget'her at the-proper times. V

. In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto 'set' my hand, at Milwaukee, in

the county of Milwaukee and State of Wis' consin, in the presence of twowitnesses.-

XlVi tne sseslr"v v N E; OLIPHANT, R.. J; BARsorI.

oos'e'ly; surrounding said shaft; guide-racks in engagement with said 'pinions; inking devices adjacent to said drumand wheels; a paper-support; and a11'.,im-

'ED'WARDJJ. BRANDT. 

